{
    "contributors": [
        {
            "name": "François Renard",
            "role": "Keyword"
        }
    ],
    "event_id": 146,
    "archive": "2018-01-24 GEO onsdag How earthquakes work",
    "vortex": {
        "url": "http:\/\/www.ub.uio.no\/english\/courses-events\/events\/ureal\/2018\/180124geowednesday.html",
        "title": "GEO Wednesday: How earthquakes work",
        "location": "The Science Library, Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus",
        "date": "2018-01-24",
        "start_time": "2018-01-24T12:15:00+01:00",
        "end_time": "2018-01-24T13:00:00+01:00",
        "introduction": "Lecture by François Renard, Professor of Earth Sciences at the Njord Center and the Geoscience Department at UiO.",
        "text": "In the Ancient Greece, earthquakes were attributed to the collapse of air bubbles in the underground, and only during the 20th century comprehensive theories that related earthquakes to the breaking of rocks and friction along tectonic faults were developed. A major challenge when studying earthquakes is that most of them nucleate at depth in the Earth and can be observed only by using surface measurements collected with seismometers, satellites or field studies of faults. In the past fifteen years, the discovery of “slow” earthquakes along major active faults has changed our view on how tectonic plates move and dissipate energy.\\n\\nIn this popular science presentation, François Renard will answer the following questions: What is the velocity of an earthquake? Can earthquakes be slow? Why did Mount Everest loose height in 2015? Are earthquakes predictable?",
        "organizers": [
            "UiO: Department of Geosciences",
            "The Science Library"
        ],
        "tags": [],
        "thumbnail": "https:\/\/www.ub.uio.no\/english\/courses-events\/events\/ureal\/2018\/webbildegeo.png"
    },
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            "title": "GEO Wednesday: How earthquakes work",
            "description": "What is the velocity of an earthquake? Can earthquakes be slow? Why did Mount Everest loose height in 2015? Are earthquakes predictable? Lecture by François Renard, Professor of Earth Sciences at the Njord Center and the Geoscience Department at UiO."
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    "primary_language": "en"
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